bog Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
    peat bog.
  2. verb cause to slow down or get stuck
    bog down.
    • The vote would bog down the house
  3. verb get stuck while doing something
    bog down.
    • She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation

WordNet

Bog noun
Etymology
Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire.
Definitions
  1. A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
    Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.
  2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. Local, U. S.
Bog transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bogged present participle & verbal noun Bogging
Definitions
  1. To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
    At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1913